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The family enjoy watching black cockatoos and other wildlife like wallabies, kangaroos and seals from their sofa.

Sisal carpet in the two bedrooms adds natural texture. The Anton aluminum wall light is from Volker Haug Studio and the bed is a floating blackbutt timber frame from Create Estate.

The bathroom is utilitarian with simple white subway tiles and bluestone flooring. The blackout

Laminate joinery in the kitchen was one way Matt was able to save costs. It's a low-spec material but we treated it really carefully to make sure it was all quite refined."

After renting several holiday houses in the area, Matt knew the fireplace was a must in this region. The Stuv 6 freestanding fireplace from Oblica subtly delineates the dining and living areas.

With no TV in the house, the Hay modular sofa facing the view invites quiet contemplation.

The cabin's corrugated iron cladding (Colorbond steel in "Windspray") riffs on the quintessential Aussie beach shack's fibre cement sheeting. When not in use, it can be completely closed off with a sliding gate.

Arriving at the cabin is now a joyous ritual. “Every time we push the gates back and see the view it’s this sense of ‘we’ve arrived’,” Matt says.

“Where we let loose was on the window,” Matt says. “It’s an aluminium window frame, which is bushfire compliant and easy to install, but the way that we detailed it was about hiding the frame so that the eye is drawn into the space.”

The house is partially off-grid, with all water collected on site and all sewage treated and disposed of on site.

Each floor of the tower is about 160 square feet. Prior to the formal renovation, Sheryl added mosaic tile from Fired Earth in the entrance hall. The hanging lights are by Industville and the high-back chair is by Nigel Griffiths.

Patnaik took inspiration from Eileen Grey’s villa and Le Corbusier's cabana for her little holiday home.

The bathtub has the best views in the whole house, tucked by the window in the loft underneath the A-frame roof.

A cantileverd loft sits on top of a humble, box-like form. From here, the homeowners can watch the rain through a large, triangular window.

"Some people want a manicured garden, but I'm of a different mindset," says Patnaik. She left the grounds untamed and organic. "If we're building in the wild, I want to live in the wild."